[Rails] Design question - integrating light-weight authorization

[David Heinemeier Hansson]

> I'm struggling with the right way to represent this.  Should I be
> using a single view for these pages with conditional hiding of certain
> portions of the rendered page?  Or should I be using different views
> for each class of user, with appropriate render calls from the
> controller?

Are there more differences than similarities? That's usually the 
question I ask when faced with this problem. Basecamp uses perhaps 80% 
conditional hiding and 20% different pages, so I think the majority of 
the time you can get away with just doing conditionals.
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